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Granted Patent B2
US 10,964,263 · App. 16/563,530 · Granted Mar 30, 2021

Display device and method of driving the same

Inventors: Sung Hwan Kim (Yongin-si, KR); Kyung Man Kim (Yongin-si, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
G09G3/3233G09G3/3266G09G3/3275G09G2300/0809G09G2310/0202G09G2310/08
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Patent No.
US 10,964,263
App. No.
16/563,530
Granted
Mar 30, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A display device includes a display panel including a pixel coupled to a data line, a read-out line, a scan line, and a sensing line, a scan driver for generating scan and sensing signals to be supplied to the scan and sensing lines, a voltage controller for controlling a gate-on voltage of each of the scan and sensing signals to be supplied to the pixel during a mobility sensing period, a data driver for supplying a data signal to the data line, and a compensator for sensing current flowing from the pixel to the read-out line and compensate for the data signal, wherein the mobility sensing period includes a period during which each of the scan and sensing signals has a first voltage, a period during which the gate-on voltage of the scan and sensing signals changes, and a period during which the sensing signal has the first voltage.

Claims (34)

1. A display device comprising:

a display panel comprising a pixel coupled to a data line, a read-out line, a scan line, and a sensing line;

a scan driver configured to generate a scan signal and a sensing signal to be respectively supplied to the scan line and the sensing line;

a voltage controller configured to control a gate-on voltage of each of the scan signal and the sensing signal to be supplied to the pixel during a mobility sensing period;

a data driver configured to supply a data signal to the data line; and

a compensator configured to sense current flowing from the pixel to the read-out line and compensate for the data signal,

wherein the mobility sensing period comprises a first period during which each of the scan signal and the sensing signal has a first voltage, a second period during which the gate-on voltage of each of the scan signal and the sensing signal changes, and a third period during which the sensing signal has the first voltage again.

2. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein, during the second period, each of the scan signal and the sensing signal is reduced to a second voltage.

3. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein, during the third period, the scan signal has a third voltage lower than the second voltage.

4. The display device according to claim 3 , wherein each of the first voltage and the second voltage is the gate-on voltage, and the third voltage is a gate-off voltage.

5. The display device according to claim 3 , wherein a falling time at which the scan signal changes from the second voltage to the third voltage synchronizes with a rising time at which the sensing signal changes from the second voltage to the first voltage.

6. The display device according to claim 2 , wherein the voltage controller comprises:

a multiplexer configured to output, in response to a first voltage control signal and a second voltage control signal, one of the first voltage and a kickback slice voltage that changes from the first voltage to the second voltage.

7. The display device according to claim 6 , wherein, during the second period, each of the scan signal and the sensing signal is reduced from the first voltage to the second voltage at a set rate.

8. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein, during the mobility sensing period, a period during which the sensing signal has the first voltage is longer than a period during which the scan signal has the first voltage.

9. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the mobility sensing period comprises a plurality of first to third periods for each pixel row.

10. The display device according to claim 1 , wherein the pixel comprises:

an organic light-emitting diode;

a first transistor coupled between a first driving power supply and an anode electrode of the organic light-emitting diode, and comprising a gate electrode coupled to a first node;

a second transistor coupled between the data line and the first node, and comprising a gate electrode configured to receive the scan signal;

a third transistor coupled between the read-out line and the anode electrode of the organic light-emitting diode, and comprising a gate electrode configured to receive the sensing signal; and

a storage capacitor coupled between the first node and the anode electrode of the organic light-emitting diode.

11. A method of driving a display device, the method comprising:

during a first period of a frame, supplying, from a scan driver, a scan signal having a first voltage to a k-th scan line (k being a natural number) and supplying, from the scan driver, a sensing signal having the first voltage to a k-th sensing line;

during a second period of the frame, changing each of the scan signal and the sensing signal from the first voltage to a second voltage; and

during a third period of the frame, supplying the sensing signal having a voltage higher than the second voltage.

12. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the first voltage is higher than the second voltage.

13. The method according to claim 12 , wherein, during the third period, the scan signal has a third voltage lower than the second voltage.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein each of the first voltage and the second voltage is a gate-on voltage, and the third voltage is a gate-off voltage.

15. The method according to claim 13 , wherein a falling time at which the scan signal changes from the second voltage to the third voltage synchronizes with a rising time at which the sensing signal changes from the second voltage to the first voltage.

16. The method according to claim 12 , wherein, during the second period, each of the scan signal and the sensing signal is reduced from the first voltage to the second voltage at a set rate.

17. The method according to claim 11 , wherein the first to third periods are during a mobility sensing period of a driving transistor of each of pixels in a k-th pixel row.

18. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the first to third periods are sequentially applied on a pixel row basis.

19. The method according to claim 17 , wherein the first to third periods are during a blank period of a frame and are selectively applied to some pixel rows.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 6, 2019
From: KIM, SUNG HWAN; KIM, KYUNG MAN
To: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 050298/0101 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2018-0136834 · Nov 8, 2018 · national
Continuity (1)
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